Mini Project 1: A rectangular jar

For my first project, I had an empty rectangular jar. Plain, boring, didn't know what to do with it. It was left in my storeroom. I decided to spice it up a little so that when used to hold sweets or flowers, it'll have a little more "life" in it.

I picked up two patterns from a pattern book, made photocopies of it and cut them out as shown in the photo below:



The tape at the sides are used so that I can attach the designs under the surface that I want to engrave on. That means, inside the jar as shown:



Next, with the help of a non permament ink pen, I trace out the black outlines of the pattern. The end product of copying the design is like this:



What's left to do now is the engraving work. I use a rotary tool with a grinding bit to engrave out large areas and then a diamond bit for finer touch up work. The photo shows the touching up process with the diamond bit.



Once thats all done, clean up the ink traces.



Ta Da!



A rejuvenated jar!

Hope you liked that.